---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 122"
citation: "Arkansas SB 122 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e053f664-0f0a-4e57-9409-50a963701fa1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1cf695a744ddf4d101ad696b6177d3afb34cec2064f32d064508a6d44350ad55"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas SB 122 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB122-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 122** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB122.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-17** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-18** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-18** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2019-03-27** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-27** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-27** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-09** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-09** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-09** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-10** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-10** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-10** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-10** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-10** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-15** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-15** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB122 is now Act 986 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e053f664-0f0a-4e57-9409-50a963701fa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).